Posted on August 15, 2013. Tags: Actual Innocence, American Bar Association, Appellate Defender, Commutations, Consenting Adults, Cuccinelli, Decriminalization, Eric Holder, Indigent Defense Services, Legalization Of Marijuana, Mandatory Minimum Drug, Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences, Mandatory Minimum Sentences, Nonviolent Drug Offenders, Poverty And Crime, Psychobabble, Public Defender System, Sarvis, Terry Mcauliffe, Violent Drug
I am pleased with the recent announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder to stop using mandatory minimum sentences for certain non-violent drug offenders: The Justice Department will no longer pursue mandatory minimum sentences for certain low-level, nonviolent drug offenders, Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday, noting the nation is “coldly efficient in jailing criminals,” but […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
Read the full story
Posted in News, Opinion
Posted on February 2, 2010. Tags: Board Of Supervisors, California Supreme Court, Court Of Appeals, Decriminalization, District Court Of Appeals, Emergency Basis, Fourth District Court Of Appeals, Health Insurance, Injunction, Landmark Case, Mantra, Medical Marijuana Laws, Medical Pot, Quite Some Time, San Diego Superior Court, State Courts, State Laws, State Mandate, State Of The Union, Supreme Court Justices
A lot of liberals are chanting the mantra “US Laws supersede State Laws”. Really? Tell that to the states that have Medical Marijuana Laws – one being considered right here in River City. And decriminalization as well. The state laws in California have allowed medical pot for quite some time, though not all agreed with […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
Read the full story
Posted in News